TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fitzi, Gregor
T1  - Global urbanism and the crisis of emancipation
JF  - Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis
N2  - In the Middle Ages the European cities constituted the bourgeois laboratory for the formulation and the institutionalisation of the rights of citizenship. In 2014, the urban population accounted already for 54 per cent of global population. Yet, globalisation and neo-liberal policies have significantly challenged the social protection systems and social justice. From a sociological perspective, increased urbanisation implies a state of increased individual freedom, while at once it provokes growing social fragmentation. The chapter focuses on these dialectics and analyses to which degree social fragmentation affects the formal institutionalisation of citizenship rights and the substantial access to formally established rights, while at the same time excluding the most disadvantaged social groups, reducing them to mere ‘denizens’ of urban societies.
Y1  - 2020
SN  - 978-0-42926-226-5
SN  - 978-0-367-20562-1
SP  - 81
EP  - 96
PB  - Routledge
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fitzi, Gregor
T1  - Introduction
BT  - Logics of urban marginalisation and resistance
N2  - This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book considers the complex process of the criminalisation of squatting alongside and beyond its juridical apparatuses. It provides insights into the ways in which the substance of social citizenship has been rapidly and significantly weakened, so that life has become much more precarious for low-income urbanites as well as large parts of the middle-class. The book reconstructs the history of Berlin’s tenant referendum, which induced the passing of a new local Housing Provision Act—one of the most progressive pieces of housing legislation in Germany. It investigates the modes of doing citizenship and social rights in practice, which characterised the creation of Berlin’s Medibüro, a network of medical offices, where medical activists provide free medical services to residents lacking access to the medical insurance system, especially to illegal migrants. The book concludes by providing a brief outlook on future research on urban citizenship.
Y1  - 2020
SN  - 978-0-429-26230-2
SN  - 978-0-367-20567-6
SP  - 1
EP  - 11
PB  - Routledge
CY  - London
ER  -